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ATLANTA (Reuters) - A security guard for a FedEx Corp facility in suburban Atlanta was in critical condition on Wednesday, a day after police said he was shot by a co-worker who also wounded five others in a blast of gunfire before killing himself. The suspect, package handler Geddy L. Kramer, 19, drove up to the security guard shack at a FedEx shipping facility in Kennesaw, Georgia, early on Tuesday and shot the 28-year-old guard before unleashing a barrage of fire with a shotgun in the nearby warehouse, police said.

Officials at Kabul University confirmed the death of two more men with Chicago connections following a shooting at a hospital in Afghanistan late last week that also claimed the life of pediatrician Jerry Umanos. Visting lecturer John Gabel and his father Gary Gabel, who was visiting him during the attack late last week, were shot dead, according to Kabul University's Vice Chancellor of Administrative Affairs Hadi Hedayati. John Gabel's parents had traveled to Kabul to visit him and John's wife was injured in the incident as well, according to Hedayati, who said that the Gabels were from the Chicago area but did not know exactly where.

KABUL (Reuters) - Three Americans were killed on Thursday when a security guard opened fire at an international hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul, the U.S. embassy said, in the latest of a series of attacks against foreign civilians in the country. "We can confirm three Americans were killed," said an embassy official, without providing further details. An interior ministry official said at least one other person, a female nurse, was wounded. (Reporting by Jeremy Laurence and Hamid Shalizi; Editing by Kim Coghill)

Jerry Umanos, the Chicago pediatrician gunned down in Afghanistan, would have wanted people to respond to his death by opening their hearts to those who live in the war-torn nation, his wife said in a tearful statement. "Our family and friends have suffered a great loss and our hearts are aching," Jan Schuitema told reporters in front of the couple's Kenwood home Thursday afternoon. "While our hearts are aching for our loss, we're also aching for the loss of the other families as well as the loss, the multiple losses, that the Afghan people have experienced.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is considering charging a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard with murder over his alleged role in a 2007 massacre of unarmed civilians in Baghdad, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday. The Justice Department is weighing "all available options" against Nicholas Slatten including first-degree murder, Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony Asuncion said at a hearing in federal court in Washington. Three other former Blackwater security guards face manslaughter charges in connection with the September 16, 2007 shootings at Nisur Square in Baghdad, in which 17 civilians were killed and more than a dozen others wounded.

A man who did security work for Chicago rapper Twista was found shot to death and lit on fire in a South Side home Friday. The man was identified as Davy Easterling by the Cook County medical examiner's office Sunday. Easterling was found in an apartment about 6 a.m. Friday in the 8300 block of South Baker Avenue. That same day, Twista had put out messages on Twitter and Instagram, saying that Easterling, who acted as a bodyguard for Twista and who he described as "A close friend of mine," had been missing for three days.

A security guard at a West Side Menards store was dragged by a Jeep for five blocks and then beaten after confronting a shoplifter who stole a set of drill bits, according to a Cook County prosecutor. Two guards from the Menards at 4501 W. North Ave. approached Danny Johnson in the parking lot outside the West Humboldt Park neighborhood store. Prosecutors said the employees had watched Johnson, of the 4800 block of West Polk Street, conceal a pack of drill bits in his coat pocket while standing in line to buy other items Friday afternoon.

A Bolingbrook police officer suffered a broken foot Wednesday afternoon while chasing a man who had allegedly stolen from a Walmart and assaulted the store's security guard. Police responded to the Walmart at 200 S. Bolingbrook Dr. about 2:40 p.m. Wednesday, according to Lt. Michael Rompa. Ryan M. Greene, 21, of Glendale Heights, had allegedly walked out of the store with a portable speaker system he did not pay for, Rompa said. A security guard approached Greene at the front of the store and he assaulted the guard, according to Rompa.

Before I went to a destination wedding, the idea irritated me. It would require four days and a chunk of money, but this was for my older son, and his wife-to-be had her heart set on Jamaica, a place I had never considered going. Bottom line: It forced me to go somewhere I ended up liking. My wife and I deviated from the plan a bit and did not stay with the rest of the wedding group. Instead we chose a different all-inclusive, partly because there were remnants of past lives in the wedding group (divorced people know what I mean)